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by lexszero_ 6mo ago
Seamless integration with fax-based workflows!
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by lexszero_ 6mo ago
Former 2:5034/16 here. I was born too late and missed most of the fun, but still managed to catch the trailing end of fidonet in the late 2000s. Pretty much everything was over IP already, there wasn't a single proper dial-up node
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by lexszero_ 7mo ago
Just curious, what come first and second in this use of the phrase applied to computer security? I came to know the expression from fire circus performance and adjacent circles, where first and second are safety of the audience and the venu
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by lexszero_ 10mo ago
Nitpicking, IBM did non develop _the_ Apollo Guidance Computer (the one in the spacecraft with people), it was Raytheon. They did, however, developed the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer that controlled the Saturn rocket in Apollo missions.
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by lexszero_ 10mo ago
Some pocket calculators from not too long ago supported this unit for some reason, along with radians and degrees. That's the third option on "DRG" button.
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
"You are so poor that when AWS goes down, you still can get into your house" -- seen somewhere
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
For a short while, I worked at one of Samsung subsidiaries on their TV firmware, mostly fixing Linux kernel bugs introduced by the product teams cannibalizing upstream features to serve their needs (including intentionally disabling reasona
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
"Letting go" belongs in the same HR phrasebook. They didn't ask permission to quit and the company were so generous to let them, the initiative was from the other side.
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
Not sure if you're referring to DeviantOllam or someone else, but here is his awesome talk on safes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z_Jv7vuiqg He is a great source of knowledge on physical security for laymen and pro
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
Here in Finland mechanical locks with electronic keying are pretty common in some places. Some of them like iLOQ or Abloy eCLIQ are actually pretty clever: electrical bits of the lock are powered from mechanical action of inserting and turn
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
If you enjoy good old grumpy bitterness like this article, you might also enjoy revisiting the classics: - https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ - http://n-gate.com/
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
> Almost nobody in the space produces anything professional and everything uses Yocto even for two person projects where Multistrap would be more productive. While I agree with your sentiment that there's a lot of poor software engi
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
Interestingly, ISO standard documents are sold for a non-insignificant price and DRMed, while people writing them are volunteers and/or paid by their employers to participate in standardization committees. A company willing to build eq
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by lexszero_ 11mo ago
I haven't heard about Optane before, but the concept of persistent memory reminds me of PhantomOS[0], which is based around the idea that from the app perspective everything is already in memory and the kernel/runtime (JVM-ish, so
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by lexszero_ 2y ago
And part of the reason for that is compatibility with existing light fixtures using legacy sockets designed 150 years ago at the dawn of electrification for incandescent bulbs, where the part dissipating the most heat was the light emitting
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by lexszero_ 2y ago
Back in 2018 I've been involved in a product development based on TX2. I had to untangle the entire nasty mess of Bash and Python spaghetti that is JetPack SDK to get everything sensibly integrated into our custom firmware build system
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by lexszero_ 2y ago
I've worked on a weather radar system with specs suspiciously similar to those you are describing. 250kW is a pulse power for a C-band stationary radar system, with a typical pulse length around 1us repeated 500-1000 times a second it
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by lexszero_ 2y ago
I'm surprised that there are no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentation when it comes to understanding bas
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by lexszero_ 3y ago
Here in Finland one retail chain (of the whole multitude of two that operate nationwide) is experimenting with scan-as-you-go approach in a few of their largest stores, and it's awesome. You scan your bonus/discount/client ca
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by lexszero_ 3y ago
I'm in Europe and here it would be "98 recommended, 95 allowed with possible degradation in performance", as it's the case for my 2006 car. More modern small volume turbocharged engines should be even more sensitive to o